{"id":312803,"date":"2026-05-13T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312803\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:19:13","slug":"semi-truck-heavily-damaged-in-fire-on-i-5-in-south-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312803\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-truck heavily damaged in fire on I-5 in South Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A semi-truck caught on fire and was impacting traffic on Interstate 5 in South Sacramento late Tuesday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Fire Department said the semi-truck was fully involved in flames that extended into a trailer it was pulling carrying cardboard. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., fire officials said crews were still working to put out any hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in the southbound lanes of I-5, near Pocket Road.<\/p>\n<p>Video released by the fire department shows the semi-truck on the shoulder of the highway with its entire cabin destroyed by the flames.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/semi-truck-fire-i5-south-sac.png#.png\" alt=\"semi-truck-fire-i5-south-sac.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Sacramento Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Fire said the driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic cameras in the areas show vehicles moving through slowly. Crews were still working to clear the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It was not yet clear why the vehicle caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A semi-truck caught on fire and was impacting traffic on Interstate 5 in South Sacramento late Tuesday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-312803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}